The Youth Mentor Podcast

In this episode, Amanda is joined by licensed therapist and teen resilience coach Gina Nelson. Gina shares about how we can start to help young people to map out their nervous system, catch when they're going into fight or flight mode and self-regulate their emotions and mood. Such an important discussion! 

You can find Gina Nelson at authenticgains.com and get her free parent mini-course at combatingteenanxiety.com. On socials you'll find her @authentic_gains on Instagram and Authentic Gains on Facebook. 

And make sure to share this episode with your community and tag us @shinefromwithinhq on instagram and Shine From Within on Facebook. If you love the idea of becoming a youth mentor yourself, please come on over to youth-mentor-training.com to take our youth mentor archetype quiz and find out if being a youth mentor is something that would light you up!

In this episode of The Youth Mentor Podcast, we chat to Bec Coldicutt from Rebel StarSeeds in Auckland, New Zealand. It's a big episode and we cover a lot, including Bec's previous careers in law and as a teacher and then starting her youth mentoring business, Rebel StarSeeds. We talk about why she left the classroom, managing boundaries with mentees and anyone else involved, and mentoring one-on-one with young people.

In this episode we chat with author, coach and mentor Jenna Lee about supporting women and teens to confidently express themselves through writing. Jenna shares her story around being a teen and not knowing how to express herself, how journalling helped transform her life and also about how she got started writing books. Jenna shares her recommendations for getting started with journalling, and how it can be such a helpful resource to get our thoughts out and not feel so overwhelmed.

In this episode we chat with Charlotte Pointeaux about holding first moon circles to celebrate and support young people around their first period. Charlotte shares in depth about the magic of circles, how to set up the space so it’s really respectful and open, how to normalise this discussion around periods, how to make sure your circles are inclusive of all genders who might bleed or be going through a lot of these hormonal changes and so much more! Head to http://shinefromwithin.com.au/the-youth-mentor-podcast for show notes, a full transcript and all links.

Our Youth Mentor Training is open at http://youthmentors.shinefromwithin.com.au

The Youth Mentor Conference - http://youth-mentor-conference.com

You can find Charlotte at http://charlottepointeaux.com

In this episode we chat with Executive Director of the Youth Leadership Foundation, Janaiha Bennett about mentoring amidst and post pandemic; building resilience through long-term programs; her journey of starting out as a participant at YLF and now being the Executive Director; details on how they deliver their programs and get funding; plus more!  Head to http://shinefromwithin.com.au/the-youth-mentor-podcast for show notes, a full transcript and all links. 

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In this episode Amanda is joined by Grenita Brooks, who doesn’t hold anything back in sharing how she started her not-for-profit for girls, how she then expanded and changed the not for profit to include all genders, how her community and school programs run, how her board of directors get funding and what she wished she knew when she was starting out. Show notes and full transcript: http://shinefromwithin.com.au/the-youth-mentor-podcast

Know what you need to be aware of, and the work that needs to be done, to ensure we're minimising harm with marginalised youth and the practical steps we can take to ensure we're holding inclusive spaces, from the way we design programs, how we hold space and even the venues we book! Topics covered include disability, race, gender, intersectionality and more. This is a powerful snippet of a longer guest expert class in our Youth Mentor Training. Show notes and full transcript at http://shinefromwithin.com.au/the-youth-mentor-podcast/

Welcome to season 3! Amanda is solo in this episode, sharing what's been happening this past year at Shine From Within HQ and what you can expect from this new season of the podcast (like how to be an inclusive youth mentor, how to engage with teens online and so much more!). She also shares about our upcoming Youth Mentor Conference, our new certification for youth mentors, why she didn't cope so well this year, etc. 

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